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People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire,why wasn't it done the other way?
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Humankind Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humankind

1.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

2.
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
Mises, Ludwig Von

3.
Man is an ape with possibilities.
Andrews, Roy Chapman

4.
[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
Da Vinci, Leonardo

5.
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Lincoln, Abraham

6.
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
Mencken, H. L.

7.
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
Sumner, Charles

8.
There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.

9.
Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.
Smith, Adam

10.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
Ruskin, John

11.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Gide, Andre

12.
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.
Curtis, Cyrus H. K

13.
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind for wisdom.
Walters, J. Donald

14.
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Socrates

15.
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Doren, Carl Van

16.
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Schlegel, Friedrich

17.
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

18.
After all there is but one race -- humanity.
Moore, George

19.
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Beecher, Henry Ward

20.
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
Janeway, Elizabeth

21.
I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.
We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.
Morris, Desmond

23.
Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.
Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
Aurelius, Marcus

25.
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
Terence

26.
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
Sarraute, Nathalie

27.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Churchill, Winston

28.
I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
Apollinaire, Guillaume

29.
Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician, man the creator of social reality, will always stay the great magician, will always be Prometheus bringing fire from heaven to earth, will always be Orpheus enthralling nature with his music. Not until humanity itself dies will art die.
Fischer, Ernst

30.
The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.
Twain, Mark

31.
Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5]
Bible

32.
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Butler, Samuel

33.
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
Quinet, Edgar

34.
Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.
What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilization concerns man's behavior to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.
Mayhew, Dr Edward

36.
Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
Lewis, C. S.

37.
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

38.
Man is a useless passion.
Sartre, Jean-Paul

39.
The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous.
Leonard, George

40.
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Watts, Alan W.

41.
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
Weil, Simone

42.
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
Caddy, Eileen

43.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
Fuller, Buckminster

44.
As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.
Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

45.
Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
Einstein, Albert

46.
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
Shaw, George Bernard

47.
The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.
Lippmann, Walter

48.
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Williams, Tennessee

49.
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
Freud, Sigmund

50.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
Steinbeck, John


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